"Lanterns" concluded last night. Here's @AVClub's review of the "superhero story as prestige procedural." "This finale gets an A, and the show a solid B-plus. I underestimated how true to its mission this show would hold," writes Dennis Perkins. Tell us what you thought in the comments.
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Director Aaron Sorkin unveiled a new skintone at a gala screening of "The Social Reckoning." Instead of mocking him, as most commentators did ("Aaron Scorchin'"), @Jezebel's Claire Guinan sees the terracotta hue as inspiration for her kitchen makeover. Here are the designs she's found, from hanging copper pots to actual bricks.
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Banned Books Week was launched in the U.S. in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, schools and stores. The goal is and was to support the freedom to seek and express ideas. Here's PEN America's list of this year's most banned books, which is topped by Patricia McCormick’s "Sold," a novel about child trafficking, and includes Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale."